Category: Powerful lessons

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. ~ Jane Goodall

We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” ~ Charles Bukowski

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren’t worse.” ~ Oscar Wilde

Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, most people forget that existence itself is extraordinary. Don’t be one of them.” ~ Ernest Hemmingway

You don’t need to win every conversation, or impress every stranger, you only need to be real. The people who matter will love you for who you are, so just be yourself.” ~ Brad Pitt

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.” ~ David Storey

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.” ~ Mark Twain

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are and what you can rise from.” ~ Maya Angelou

I am going your way, so let us go hand in hand. You help me and I’ll help you. We shall not be here very long … so let us help one another while we may. ~ William Morris

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is a miracle to be here at all, and I think we forget that. We should spend more time being astonished and less time being annoyed.” ~ Judi Dench

The only thing that really matters is you should always be able to look yourself in the eye and say, ‘I did my best.’” ~ Humphrey Bogart

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” ~ Carl Sandburg

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” ~ Mark Twain

Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don’t.” ~ Tom Hiddleston

“It’s in the moments of decision, when you’re not sure what to do, that your future is being determined. Don’t ignore those moments. Don’t fear them. Remember your values. Remember your dreams. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Try to focus your time and energy on the things that make a difference, and let go of the things you can’t control. I would tell my younger self to worry less about what others think, and more about what feels true.” ~ Helen Mirren

I complained because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.” ~ Irish saying

If you want to know your purpose, pay attention to what stays with you — the ideas you can’t forget, the things you return to even when they’re difficult, the work that refuses to let you go. That’s your soul speaking.” ~ Joseph Campbell

Stay focused. This is the simplest advice you will ever hear. And the hardest advice you will ever follow. ~

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” ~ Earl Nightingale

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” ~ Albert Einstein

Never make a decision from a state of fatigue, panic, or external pressure. Step away, find silence, and allow clarity to surface before you commit to something.” ~ Katharine Hepburn

If you want to know your purpose, pay attention to what stays with you — the ideas you can’t forget, the things you return to even when they’re difficult, the work that refuses to let you go. That’s your soul speaking.” ~ Joseph Campbell

The truth is, life is hard, but it’s also beautiful. You don’t get one without the other, and the lesson is to hold them both — to let the beauty soften the struggle, and let the struggle deepen your appreciation of the beauty.” ~ Gregory Peck